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" is not abfolutely local, none is to be expected ; 

 "where it is, and feated in any part, not to be 

 " well come at for extirpation, I think it is hardly 

 " to be imagined, but that the having it fucked. 

 " clean as often as you pleafe, muft give great 

 " relief. Every body knows, that dogs licking of 

 " fores cures them, which is, I fuppofe, chiefly by 

 " keeping them clean. If there is any credit to be 

 " given to hiftory, poifons have been fucked out, 



Palkntia Vulnera lambit 



Ore Venena trahens. 



" are the words of Lucan on the occafion : if the 

 " people to whom thefe words are applied, did 

 " their cure by immediately following the injection 

 " of the poifon, the local confinement of another 

 " poifon brings the cafe -to a great degree of fimi- 

 " larky. 



" I hope I have not tired your lordfhip with my 

 " long tale, as it is a true one, and in my appre- 

 " henfion a curious piece of natural hiftory, I could 

 " not forbear communicating it to you. I own I 

 "thought the ilory in the p.apers to be an inven- 

 " tion, and when I confidered the inftinclive prin- 

 " cipie in all animals of felf preiervation, I was 

 " confirmed in my difbelief ; but what I have re- 

 *' lated I faw, and all theory mud yield to fact. 

 " It is only the Rubeta^ the land toad, which has 

 " the property of fucking 5 I cannot find any the 



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